{"id":20224,"date":"2013-10-10T14:38:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=20224"},"modified":"2021-11-16T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T01:19:10","slug":"18-4-million-grant-will-build-careers-in-biomedical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/10\/18-4-million-grant-will-build-careers-in-biomedical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"$18.4 million grant will build careers in biomedical research"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Robert Nichols, David Easa, Helen Turner, Kari Kim, Mari Rayner, John Chen and Stephen Itoga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The John A<\/abbr>. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> on the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Mānoa<\/a> campus has been awarded $18.4 million over five years for a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Statewide Research and Education Partnership under the IDeA<\/abbr> Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE<\/abbr>)<\/a> program at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences<\/a>. The project’s principal investigator is Professor Robert Nichols<\/strong> and the program coordinator is David Easa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> INBRE<\/abbr> program has been supported for more than 10 years by the National Institutes of Health<\/a> and has recently received an additional five years of support. The current grant will be devoted to fostering biomedical careers among students at partner institutions, which include the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo College of Pharmacy<\/a>, UH<\/abbr> community colleges<\/a> (Kapiʻolani<\/span> CC<\/abbr>, Windward CC<\/abbr>, Leeward CC<\/abbr>, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> CC<\/abbr>, Maui College and Kauaʻi<\/span> CC<\/abbr>), Chaminade University<\/a> and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the previous round of INBRE<\/abbr> funding, development of state-of-the-art facilities and support for entry-level junior investigators were provided at primarily undergraduate-based partner institutions to create a foundation where students could participate in cutting-edge biomedical research. A major emphasis for the research among partners is to investiage the unique resources Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has to offer with respect to marine and plant life for discovery of natural products with potential application as biomedicines. A second emphasis is to investigate health disparities arising in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s diverse population.<\/p>\n

“Students in our program, who may be the first in their family to attend college, now have the exciting opportunity to pursue biomedical research as a career,” said Nichols.<\/p>\n

—A John A. Burns School of Medicine news release<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UH<\/abbr> Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Statewide Research and Education Partnership will build careers in biomedical research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,9],"class_list":["post-20224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t